"I have been terminated from my job at KPCB," Pao wrote on question and answer site Quora."On Monday afternoon, senior management told me to clean out my office, leave, and not come back." Pao then thanked the Quora community, which has shown an outpouring of support for her.

Kleiner Perkins has repsonded by saying that Pao is being terminated for job performance issues, and that she was not forced to immediately leave her post.

"Ms. Pao's Quora post is misleading," a Kleiner Perkins spokeswoman said in a statement. "Because of long standing issues having no relationship or bearing on the litigation, Kleiner approached Ms. Pao to facilitate her transition over a period of time, out of the firm."

In May, Pao, a junior partner at the firm, filed a lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins alleging that she was pressured into having a sexual relationship with another partner and that she suffered retaliaton from her co-workers when she tried to end the relationship.

Shortly after Pao filed her suit, she posted to Quora, saying that she would continue to work at the firm and had no plans to quit.

The suit says Pao's complaints about being propositioned for sex by a firm partner were widely ignored by senior management. Rather than address her complaints, Pao alleges the firm retaliated against her by reducing her profit share and attempting to have her transferred to the firm's China office, according to the legal complaint.